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Smooth non-zero rest-mass evolution across time-like infinity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2014-02-20 v2

Abstract

It is shown that solutions to Einstein's field equations with positive cosmological constant can include non-zero rest-mass fields which coexist with and travel unimpeded across a smooth conformal boundary. This is exemplified by the coupled Einstein-massive-scalar field equations for which the mass mm is related to the cosmological constant λ\lambda by the relation 3m2=2λ3\,m^2 = 2\,\lambda. Cauchy data for the conformal field equations can in this case be prescribed on the (compact, space-like) conformal boundary J+{\cal J}^+. Their developments backwards in time induce a set of standard Cauchy data on space-like slices for the Einstein-massive-scalar field equations which is open in the set of all Cauchy data for this system.

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@article{arxiv.1311.0700,
  title  = {Smooth non-zero rest-mass evolution across time-like infinity},
  author = {Helmut Friedrich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.0700},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

24 pages. New title, section added, typos corrected

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